Lunatic Harness: �-Ziq: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Brace Yourself Jason

2. Hasty Boom Alert

3. Mushroom Compost

4. Blainville

5. Lunatic Harness

6. Approaching Menace

7. My Little Beautiful

8. Secret Stair Pt.1

9. Secret Stair Pt.2

10. Wannabe

11. Catkin and Teasel

12. London

13. Midwinter Log

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST ALBUM OF THE NINETIES, May 26 2004

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"harry876876" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lunatic Harness (Audio CD)

This is without doubt the most emotionally involving album ever made in the field of electronic music. And i think I've listened to just about all the rest of them.

Catkin And Teasel (Track 11) on its own displays more invention and depth than most other electronic artists manage in an entire career.

The drum programming on the album maybe have been surpassed in complexity, but never in inventiveness. Like watching Groucho Marx come out with a string of one liners, the rhythm tracks are utterly astonishing and display an impish sense of humour that appears simply nowhere else in music - especially in 2004.

Forget Weird Al Jankovic or DJ Rubbish. Think Thelonius Monk. Think Captain Beefheart. Real wit in music - not lyrically but in the actual notes - has been missing for decades. This album will make you wet yourself.

To combine such emotional intensity with a unique and seemingly inexhaustible rhythmic invention would be enough to ensure this album's place amongst the all time classics - but to present these ideas with a razor sharp musical wit makes Lunatic Harness come alive with a human personality that is sadly missing from the majority of electronic music - from 20 years ago or from today.

So all I can say is - "Ugh!"
(listen to track 1 "Brace Yourself Jason - you'll know what i mean)

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5.0 out of 5 stars a timeless classic..., Sep 12 2005

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Jason Chatzilias - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lunatic Harness (Audio CD)

...i bought this album when i was 17 years old..and it's still amazing...Mike Paradinas has a phenominal sense of melody and composition...

stand cuts are Hasty Boom Alert and Mushroom Compost...which are probably some of the best "idm" tracks of all time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great range., May 31 2004

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C. k Hamilton (SD, CA) - See all my reviews
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Consider what was happening in 97. This album was amazing when it came out and I still would put its creativity up against majority of the laptop generation of kids to this day.

This album is about knowing rhythm. Some of the most beautiful rhythms and composed beats I've ever heard when this album came out.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Starts brilliant, ends weak
The first four or so tracks on this album are absolutely essential -- the spazzy xylophone and "ha! Read more

Published on May 22 2004 by William Whyte

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing special.
Yet another album that concentrates on those synth-cheese melodies. Mu-Ziq just keeps on kicking the horse, and does so with less beat programming talent than Squarepusher or... Read more